MONDAY
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Rewind it, Anya said. I want to see you do the Swoopy dance again.
Snoopy, Xander corrected her gently, crossing the room to his stereo. And I dont have to rewind the tape, because I have the music on CD. He extracted the disc and slipped it in the player, selecting track four.
The sound of Vince Guaraldis energetic piano filled the apartment as Linus and Lucy began to play. Xander held out his hand to Anya. The girl stood and joined him as once again the boy began dancing frenetically around the living room. Uncertainly, she raised her arms in an arc and bounced from one foot to the other, bobbing her head left and right in imitation of the cartoon girl in the purple dress.
Thats it, Xander shouted. Youre doing it!
Bolstered by his enthusiasm, Anya loosened up and the two danced wildly around the apartment until the song ended, and they collapsed, breathless.
And Xander started the song again.
("How Lovely Are Thy Branches")
Anya/Xander Xmas fiction by Kuzibah.
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Fortune Cookies:
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul."
---Martha Graham
"If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun."
---Katherine Hepburn.
"O lyric Love, half angel and half bird And all a wonder and a wild desire."
---Robert Browning.
"Dance with me, I want to be your partner
Can't you see the music is just starting?
Night is falling, and I am calling
Dance with me
Fantasy could never be so giving
I feel free, I hope that you are willing
Pick your feet up, and kick your feet up
Dance with me
Let it lift you off the ground
Starry eyes, and love is all around
I can take you where you want to go
Dance with me, I want to be your partner
Can't you see the music is just starting?
Night is falling, and I am calling
Dance with me
Let it lift you off the ground
Starry eyes, and love is all around
I can take you where you want to go
Fantasy could never be so giving
I feel free, I hope that you are willing
To pick your feet up, kick your feet up
And dance with me
Dance with me, I want to be your partner
Can't you see the music is just starting?
Night is falling, and I am calling
Dance with me
Dance with me
Dance with me"
---Orleans, "Dance with Me"
TUESDAY
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"And love was a curse. They wrote of heroic deaths and romantic dinners, and everyone knew life wasn't like that. Some died heroes. Some ate by candlelight. Most clung to an attraction or a friendship with the extra benefit of occasional sex. Few knew real love.
Real love was sacrifice. Real love was frantic and needing. Real love was when every moment became the last moment, when every kiss was tainted with the fear that tomorrow this may all end. With fear came the certainty that if this was the last kiss, if love had been felt only for a fleeting few days, it was forever worth the world of pain that followed.
Those who felt real love felt real pain."
("Sacrifice")
fiction by Swirly Head
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Fortune Cookies:
"Give all to love; obey thy heart."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"And I don't regret the rain
Or the nights I felt the pain
Or the tears I had to cry
Some of those times along the way.
Every road I had to take
Every time my heart would break,
It was just something that I had to get through
To get me to you."
---Lila McCann ,"To get me to you"
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life"
---Federico Fellini.
"For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth."
---William Shakespeare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
"There are no guarantees.
From the viewpoint of fear,
None are strong enough.
From the viewpoint of love,
None are necessary"
---Anonymous
WEDNESDAY
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Buffy stared at the grave of her mother. She felt like she was going to cry, but during the last three weeks, since her mother's death, she had cried so much that she doubted she could cry one tear. She turned around and walked away. She looked inside the mailbox as she walked past it. There was one letter. It was addressed to her. From Angel.
She rushed inside and ripped the envelope open.
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Dear Buffy, 3-14-01
I am so sorry that I wasn't there for your mother's funeral. I know you were in pain, and I didn't want to bring you more sorrow by being there. Now, two weeks later, I know that it isn't any better, but I want you to know that I am always here for you. No matter what.
Forever yours,Angel
Dear Angel, 3-20-01
Thank you for your letter. When I saw Cordelia, Wesley, and Gunn at the funeral, I was hoping that you would be here, also. But you're right, it would have been more painful to see you. Even after two years, it hurts to remember that I lost you.
Love,Buffy
Dear Buffy, 3-23-01
I know how you feel, but you never lost me. I am here no matter what. If you ever need anything, I am just a call away.
Forever yours,Angel
("Letters From the Heart", pt 1)
fiction by Kat
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Fortune Cookies:
"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."
---Franois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and you worries.
Trouble me on the days when you feel spent.
Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden when my back is sturdy and strong?
Trouble me.
Speak to me, don't mislead me, the calm I feel means a storm is swelling;
there's no telling where it starts or how it ends.
Speak to me, why are you building this thick brick wall to defend me when your silence is my greatest fear?
Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden when my back is sturdy and strong?
Speak to me.
Let me have a look inside these eyes while I'm learning.
Please don't hide them just because of tears.
Let me send you off to sleep with a "There, there, now stop your turning and tossing."
Let me know where the hurt is and how to heal.
Spare me? Don't spare me anything troubling.
Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and you worries.
Speak to me and let our words build a shelter from the storm.
Lastly, let me know what I can mend. There's more, honestly, than my sweet friend, you can see.
Trust is what I'm offering .
if you trouble me."
---10,000 Maniacs, "Trouble Me"
"Can miles truly separate you from friends.... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?"
---Richard Bach
"We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other."
---Liciano De Crescenzo
THURSDAY
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Spike looked away and his eye fell on a slim paperback on the table. He picked it up. "Romeo and Juliet?"
Buffy groaned, "Yeah. You know that drama class that Willow made me take? Guaranteed easy A, right? Wrong. We actually have to read plays!"
"It's an outrage." Spike agreed. He looked at the book, closing his eyes. He seemed to be searching for something..or was it someone..in the back of his mind. He opened his eyes and looked at Buffy. He began to speak, reciting from long buried memory.
" O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
As yonder lady over her fellows shows.
The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,
And touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? Foreswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
Buffy sat transfixed. This wasn't Spike's style of speaking at all. This voice was cultured and beautiful. My God! This was what Spike must have been like as William, before he was vamped. Incredible. And the words. No wonder Juliet fell in love with Romeo if this was how he spoke. Buffy felt tears come to her eyes. She looked away so Spike wouldn't see that he had moved her.
("Love at Stake")
fiction by JodithGrace
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Fortune Cookies:
"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
---Elinor Glyn
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
---Plato
"It's funny how sometimes something has to happen to finally realize how you feel about a person"
---"My So Called Life"
"There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love."
---Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."
---Tom Hanks, "Forrest Gump"
FRIDAY
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Xander!" She threw her arms around him, but he didn't return the embrace. She could tell he was tense... upset. "You came back?"
"Yeah."
"Why? Your note said..."
"I know what the note said," he replied a little too harshly. "But there was one thing I hadn't counted on."
"What's that?" she asked as tears continued to stream steadily down her face.
"The knowledge that, while you may not be in love with me, you need me. You need me to tell you the truth... to back you up... to keep you alive. I've been a part of the team since the beginning. I remembered when I gave you CPR and brought you back. You needed me... right then and there. If I hadn't been there... I'm not gonna abandon you, no matter how much it hurts to see you and Angel together. Fate has placed me at your side in this stupid war we fight. I'll stay and fight because this is where I belong. With you, only not WITH you. Loving you, but not..." He paused and looked away. "I'm here."
"I love you," she said. "You. Xander Harris."
("Rain Falls on the Just")
fiction by Jeff
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Fortune Cookies:
"To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken. Because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing"
---Leo Buscaglia
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath,
Smiles tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death."
---Elizabeth Browning
"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me."
---John Erskine
"You can wish you were in love, but you have to wait until the object of your affection knocks on your door."
---Anjelica Huston
"My love, you know you are my best friend.
You know that I'd do anything for you
And my love, let nothing come between us.
My love for you is strong and true."
---Sarah McLachlan
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